[06/06/08 - 01:51 PM]Academy Award-Winners Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino Will Host the Western and Gangster Genres, Respectively, on Afi's 10 Top 10The three-hour special premieres Tuesday, June 17 at 8:00/7:00c on CBS.

[via press release from CBS]

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LOS ANGELES, June 6 - CBS announced today that Academy Award-winning actor and director Clint Eastwood ("Million Dollar Baby") and Academy Award-winning actor and director Quentin Tarantino ("Pulp Fiction") will host the Western and Gangster genres, respectively, when the Top 10 films in 10 genres are unveiled on AFI'S 10 TOP 10, a new chapter in its Emmy Award-winning "AFI's 100 Years..." series, counting down the top 10 films from 10 classic American film genres, Tuesday, June 17, (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

To pay homage to the 10 revered genres including animation, fantasy, science fiction, gangster, western, sports, romantic comedy, courtroom drama, mystery and epic film, AFI enlisted film artists associated with each category to count down the top films, while providing their unique insight on each. The hosts for each genre include: Clint Eastwood for Western; Quentin Tarantino for Gangster; Jessica Alba for Romantic Comedy; Cuba Gooding, Jr. for Sports; Sigourney Weaver for Sci-Fi; Kirk Douglas for Epic; Jennifer Love Hewitt for Animation; James Woods for Courtroom Drama; Gabriel Byrne for Mystery; and Sean Astin for Fantasy.